[Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We reprint below Joseph Polermo’s Los Angeles Progressive factual account obliterating NYT’s rightwing editorialist Bret Stephen’s call for a punishing US war against Iran for its recent retaliatory firing of missiles on the genocidal Zionist Israeli entity. Polermo more than adequately sketches the US-Zionist horrors perpetrated on the Palestinian people and … Continue reading NYT’s Warmonger Bret Stephens Says the U.S. Must Attack Iran: Some necessary Iran-US history →

[Editor’s note, Jeff Mackler: We proudly reprint here WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s address in France Tuesday morning, October 1, 2024 to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The remarks include Assange’s responses during the Q&A period. We are deeply impressed by Assange’s bitter … Continue reading Julian Assange: “I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism. I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else.” →

By Karlos Bermann With Fall Semester beginning, it’s time to turn the tables on campus repression and censorship! Classes are just resuming and in Virginia we’ve already seen VCU students campaigning against repression, based on what occurred at Palestine ` last April. We’re likely to see more of the same when protest actions begin again. … Continue reading Palestine Solidarity: Suggestions for Young People… Repressing the Repression and Censorship →

[Photo above, Pulitzer Prize novelist-poet Alice Walker] By Jeff Mackler One hundred Julian Assange solidarity, antiwar and social justice activists celebrated Assange’s freedom at Berkeley’s Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall on Sunday, Sept. 22. Sponsored by Assange's defense organizations, the Courage Foundation and Assangedefense.org, 20 other peace and solidarity groups were co-sponsors. (See below). Featured … Continue reading Berkeley, CA  Julian Assange Celebration Raises $5,000: The Struggle Continues: Free ‘Em All! Free Palestine! No To US Wars! →

Free Mumia! Free Leonard! Free the African Peoples Socialist Party/Uhuru Three! Free 'Em All! Free Speech! Free Press!  Free Palestine! No to US Wars! Sunday, Sept. 22, 7-9 PM 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley, CA $20 Pay at the door; No one turned away for lack of funds or via Eventbrite here: https://codepink.org/assange922 Sponsor: Courage Foundation and … Continue reading Celebrate Julian Assange’s Freedom! Berkeley, Sun. Sept. 22 The Struggle Continues! →

By Jeff Mackler The two multi-billionaire-backed, 2024 presidential candidates faced off before some 67 million ABC-TV viewers on September 10. The pollsters recorded that Democrat Kamala Harris handily “won” the debate by a 66-34 margin. The New York Times’ fact checkers found that Republican Donald Trump lied or distorted facts 33 times; Harris made but one slightly … Continue reading Harris-Trump “Debate” Ruling Class Politics: The “Lesser Evil” Takes Some Blows →

By Jason Koslowski  [Editor’s note/Jeff Mackler: Written five days before the September 10 internationally televised Harris-Trump presidential election debate, we reprint below Jason Koslowski’s insightful Left Voice article detailing the US ruling class’s multi-billionaire backers of the Harris campaign… and Trump’s too. At $10 billion, the 2024 election expenditures far exceed the record 2020 total … Continue reading Who’s Funding Harris’s “Lesser Evil” Campaign? [Background to the Sept. 10 Harris-Trump debate] →

[Reprinted from Democracy Now! September 5, 2024] EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Suspends Journalism Professor Steven Thrasher After Gaza Solidarity Protest (youtube.com)

[Photo above: Israeli soldier beating West Bank Palestinian: UK: The Independent] The Israeli genocide in Gaza continues and intensifies with the outbreak of polio — once thought to be eradicated worldwide — among Palestinian children. The Israeli aim of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has reached a new stage in the West Bank. Jeremy Scahill of … Continue reading Israel terrorizes West Bank while continuing war in Gaza • By Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard →

By Karlos Bermann On August 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador [photo above] announced that his country had “paused” relations with the embassies of the United States and Canada. He stressed that the “pause” applied to the embassies and not to the countries themselves, whatever that may mean or imply. Some news outlets, apparently … Continue reading Imperialism: Everywhere You Look By Karlos Bermann →

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist 28 Aug 2024   What does democracy mean if elections are ignored and journalists are charged as criminals? That is the case today, as western countries descend into crises of their own making and are more blatant in their disregard for the norms they claim to … Continue reading “Democracies” Attack Journalism as They Attack Democracy Itself, By Margaret Kimberely →

By Jeff Mackler 24,500 full size posters reading “We ♥ Joe” [See photo above] were held high by virtually every Democratic Party Convention delegate and attendee jammed into Chicago’s United Center to cheer for yesterday’s disgraced and withdrawn presidential candidate, Genocide Joe Biden. That the Biden-Harris administration presided over a new congressionally approved $20 billion … Continue reading Democratic Party Convention… The “Lesser Evil” Strikes Again…with a Vengeance and a Cacophony of Lies, Obfuscations and Corporate Media Orchestrated Hype →

[Initiated by the Courage Foundation’s Nathan Fuller and Defending Rights and Dissent’s Chip Gibbons, the following letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on behalf of a coalition of over 140 journalists and press freedom advocates in solidarity with their colleagues facing targeted killings in Palestine. Read their press release about the … Continue reading 140 Journalists/Media Workers Demand US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Impose Arms Embargo on Israel! →

By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on August 15, 2024  [Photo above: Mijaín López, Cuban athlete who for the first time in history won five consecutive gold medals at the Olympics in the same sport, Greco-Roman wrestling, 2004 - 2024, Photo by Victor Villalba Gutiérrez] [Editor’s note by Jeff Mackler: That Cuba’s Mijaín López, won an unprecedented … Continue reading Cuba’s Parallel Reality in Paris Olympics: [With an editor’s note on new Netflix documentary “Mafia spies” on CIA/Mafia collaboration on assassination attempts on Fidel Castro’s life] →

The March on the DNC will be a march for Palestine. Click here for the dates, locations, full demands, etc. marchondnc2024.org Our main demand will be: Stand with Palestine! End U.S. Aid to Israel We will also be bringing together the demands of the people’s movements to the door of the Democratic party: Money for … Continue reading March on the Democratic Party National Convention: DEMANDS →

By Karlos Bermann [Photo above: Protesters in Dhaka, Bangladesh celebrate the downfall of Sheikh Hasina, August 5, 2024 (AP/Rajib Dhar)] An interim government for Bangladesh was sworn in on the night of August 8, following the return to the country by Muhammad Yunus, the former managing director of the Bangladesh Grameen Bank and a perennial … Continue reading With US imperialism behind the curtain, Bangladesh swears in new leader and interim government →

By Jeff Mackler [Photo below: One million Venezuelans celebrate Maduro election victory.] With 80 percent of voting stations counted, the country’s election authority reported that President Maduro had received 51.2 percent of the vote. Edmundo González, the US imperialist backed and financed  “opposition” candidate received 44.2 percent. González had declared in advance of the election, … Continue reading Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro Re-elected Despite US Backing His Rightist Would-be Coup Plotters →

[July 24 Chicago Federal Plaza rally statement by representative of Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine protesting bi-partisan Netanyahu invitation to address US Congress, 600 attended.] This Sunday, after nearly 10 months of mass outrage and action against the genocide genocidair-in-chief, Joe Biden has stepped down from the 2024 election race. There can be no doubt … Continue reading We have zero obligation to vote for war criminals and career politicians who serve no one but their rich donors →

By Derek Seidman, [Reprinted with permission from TRUTHOUT, July 31, 2024.] Over the past few years, the battle against the proposed 85-acre Atlanta Public Safety Training Center — commonly known as “Cop City” — has emerged as a national flashpoint of resistance to militarized, corporate-backed police power. As it turns out, Cop City is also … Continue reading Billionaire Donors to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Are Underwriting A Thin Blue Line Between Israel and Atlanta’s “Cop City” →

Statement from the ANSWER Coalition 
in response to White House and media lies [Editor’s Note: Jeff Mackler, Tens of thousands of antiwar and social justice activists, supporters of Palestinian freedom, people of all faiths and organizations representing a broad spectrum of the US antiwar movement mobilized in Washington, D.C on July 24. We reprint below … Continue reading Defeat for Netanyahu and 
His Protectors in Washington: Tens of thousands demand war criminal’s arrest →

By Jeff Mackler As with France’s newly moderated and re-imaged proto-fascist Marine Le Pen a few weeks earlier, Donald J. Trump took the floor of the Republican National Convention for a 93-minute “unifying” nomination acceptance speech. Friendly, relaxed, complementary, “family-oriented,” thanking God for saving his life five days earlier from an assassin’s near fatal bullet, … Continue reading Demagogue Trump’s “Restraint” at Republican Party Convention: Biden Drops Out →

By Joe Allen [Photo above: President Joe Biden with Kenyan President William Ruto, White House] “The menu featured fruitwood-smoked beef short ribs, poached lobster, chilled heirloom tomato soup and a white chocolate basket.” Yummy. A few hours before the sumptuous dinner, Reuters reported, Some of the food supplies waiting to enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt … Continue reading Palestinians Starve While White House Feast Honors Kenya’s Killer President Ruto: Biden Backs 1000 Kenyan Troops to Enforce US-imposed Haitian Dictatorship →

By Jeff Mackler  Despite a week of intense Camp David pre-debate preparation, where President Biden was pumped full with “facts” provided by his $billionaire-backed campaign advisers aimed at demonstrating his administration’s “achievements,” Biden proved incapable of a single coherent explanation of his policies. We’ll leave it to the “experts” to evaluate the intellectual capacities of … Continue reading “Genocide Joe” Biden’s Blown Debate With “Moron” Donald Trump: Democrats Scramble to Terminate Biden’s Candidacy   →

By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report  Executive Editor and Senior Columnist July 3, 2024 [Photo above: Julian Assange arrives in Australia on June 26, 2024 (Photo: AFP)] After seven years of asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London and another five years imprisoned by the United Kingdom, Julian Assange is finally a free man. The prospect … Continue reading Julian Assange Freed by the Prospect of Justice →